 In the early 1970s she joined the BDSM and leather scenes.In 1988 she became an honorary member of Tulsa Uniform Leather Seekers Association (T.U.L.S.A).In 2005 she started The Carter/Johnson Library & Collection, a "collection of thousands of books, magazines, posters, art, club and event pins, newspapers, event programs and ephemera showing leather, fetish, S/M erotic history."